HI. Im very very new to this so please forgive the very basic request. Ive been "learning" this for around 2 days with no real background in hacking/cracking etc.

Ive made a word document and password protected it - the password is "mike" (nice and simple)

Now I want to learn hop to get hashcat to find the password. I have got the latest version installed and have put the DOC file through QuickHash to generate a hash of the file

I then used youtube (sorry but I needed to start somewhere) to come up with the following - it uses wordlists which appear to be doing the job but my GPU is not being utitlised enough (reported from HASHCAT)

-m is for type of attack (9400 for office2007)
-a how do u want to crack the hash (3 is bruteforce mode)
?l mean low characters, u could change it as ?a?a?a?a (?a is all, >u is upper case, and so on..)